Outcomes

The Culture KICK network’s general outcome encourages different groups to collaborate on problems/aspects that have potentially sustainable practical applications in achieving innovations in digital cultural heritage and design. Culture KICK focuses on sustainable technical, design-related and interpretative solutions, conceptual frameworks and design methods for mutual benefit between research and practice.

NETWORKING

Culture KICK aims to become a platform for cultural heritage and the creative industry sector in which learning and research can be shared and developed in partnership with others.

Culture KICK networking activities involve representatives from RTDs, SMEs and cultural heritage organizations, and leverage prominent cultural heritage conferences such as NODEM (Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums) for discussions on applying and managing innovative design research and practical new technology. These events will result in policy recommendations and the solidifying of actions and next steps to support digital cultural heritage knowledge sharing and preservation.

NODEM DIGITAL REPOSITORY

The NODEM Digital Repository will be a tool for presentation of case studies and projects, and a source to reach Nordic academic or professional communities in the DCH field. Within the connecting platform, users will find state-of-the-art projects with descriptions and demos that document diverging approaches to design within digital heritage communication.

The Culture KICK connecting platform aims to support those working in digital CH by providing avenues for professionals to connect and access cutting edge information. It will be a central online resource for the digital CH sector that pools knowledge and resources from the network and reduces duplication of effort.

The online platform will be continuously updated by contributors.. The website is maintained by the Interactive Institute Swedish ICT. The platform will have different levels of security and be editorially moderated.

PUBLICATIONS

We have initiated collaborations with partners from media studies and ICT based learning, and from CH institutions to collect research outputs and creative industry solutions into publications and ultimately provide open access to research results to museum professionals. The know-how publication will focus on how to introduce research results and creative industry solutions to museum professionals while the journal focuses on new forms of collaboration in research related to design.

Know-How Books

Inspired by the concepts developed by the EU Network of Excellence EPOCH network partners, the Culture KICK network will produce 3-5 Know-how Books (depending on the volume) that act as a bridge between research findings and everyday practice for people working in the cultural heritage sector and creative industry.

The books illustrate case studies and prototypes presented in workshops, and aim to support people working in museums, heritage sites, monuments, CH managers, exhibition producers/curators, pedagogues and professionals engaged in restoration, site management and preservation, as well as those responsible for communication to different audiences and the public at large. All the books in the series will be provided in hard copy and electronic versions, with the latter being made available to a wider audience online.

The Interactive Institute Swedish ICT acts as coordinator, editor and publisher of the Know-how Books series for Culture KICK. So far, we have established 2 working groups for case studies of know-how books:

The journal Digital Creativity 25:3 Special Issue: Designing for creative communication in museums and cultural institutions focused on new forms of collaboration in research related to design and it included five contributions from the Culture KICK Network: